The Federal
Government
on September
4, 2013,
Wednesday,
rebuked
university
lecturers,
ASUU, over
their ongoing
indefinite
strike.
Mr. Labaran
Maku, the Minister of Information, announced the
government’s attitude to the strike while speaking to
the reporters on September 4, 2013, Wednesday,
after the weekly meeting of the Executive Council of
the Federation, FEC, in Abuja.
“This country belongs to all of us, if we all insist that
every sector problem must be completely solved, we
will down tools we will not work, then the country will
stop working,” he said.
The Minister of Information also pointed out that if all
the sectors of government decide to down their tools
until all their problems are solved, the country would
shut down.
Mr. Labaran Maku insisted that the Government
implements a 2009 agreement it had with the Union.
“We are partners with ASUU, we are friends. They
are our patriots and we understand the critical role
that the universities teachers are doing to create a
new society that we are hoping to have.
“But at the same time, this is a reality question that
we need to look at and we have to put the nation
first,” he said.
The Minister also said the Federal Government has
spent a lot on the development of tertiary education
across the country, appealed to the lecturers to have
a rethink on its demands by considering the fact that
there are many other competing demands from other
sectors.
He said outside of security, education is one of the
sectors the government had expended a lot of money
on.
“I know all of us desire more from the system but the
truth is that there are limitations and from the
limitations we have, we believe that ASUU really
needs to do rethink and ensure that we reopen our
universities because really we are feeling the pain of
our children being at home and this indeed is
completely avoidable,” he said.
“Don’t forget that in 2010 we announced a 53.4 per
cent increase on public salaries across board which
affected all people in the public service that has still
left a huge deficit in the annual budget of the country.
“I just want to say that it is unfortunate that our
students are still at home. It is very sad because the
federal government has done so much in the last
three years for education.”
Source ; http://.com

Maku is a product knows the Trnth , he is just being economical with the truth!